The Season of the Witch is upon us, ye ole FANGORIA Readers! And to many, Halloween means candy, costumes and creepshows of all sorts. But to the staff at FANGORIA, Halloween can mean something more entirely. Therefore, we present 30 FOR 31, in which FANGORIA recounts the cinema that most strongly represents what Halloween means to us.

Welcome to Shadowvision, a regular column in which Fangoria.com revisits modern horror films in black and white. The purpose is to analyze these films through a new lens, seeing if the classically informed viewing experience will give a new angle to familiar images. If you’d like to watch along at home, it’s simple: go into your TV settings and desaturate the picture completely, then adjust the contrast and brightness to fit either standard or high definition.

Though he’s appeared in such blockbusters as LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, DODGEBALL and GALAXY QUEST, horror fans remember actor Justin Long best for his genre gigs in JEEPERS CREEPERS, DRAG ME TO HELL and the much underrated AFTER.LIFE. Now the former Mac guy has turned in the most astonishing and challenging work of his career in director Kevin Smith’s jaw-dropping horror yarn TUSK, now in theaters from A24. Long plays a sleazy podcaster who meets his match in eccentric lunatic Michael Parks (of Smith’s RED STATE), who—SPOILER ALERT—transforms the imprisoned man into a sea mammal!

The following might very well be the shortest review you’ll read here at Fango this month. It’s not because SONNO PROFONDO (DEEP SLEEP) — a new Argentinian psychodrama from writer, composer, photographer and director Luciano Onetti — is a bad movie. It’s not. It’s actually not a movie at all really, in the traditional sense anyway.

It’s an exciting landscape these days in independent filmmaking. Thanks to advances in digital filmmaking, more ambitious yet reasonably affordable films are being greenlit every day. Yet in these films, not only do we get to meet new, resourceful filmmakers but we get to see more established actors experiment with their craft as well.

When HBO’s TRUE DETECTIVE launched earlier this year, few (including FANGORIA) could have predicted just how far into genre territory the series would venture. In fact, many horror fans have praised the season finale of TRUE DETECTIVE as one of the best hours of horror television this year, standing among horror procedurals such as SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and SE7EN. And with the series adopting the “seasonal anthology” format, speculation has run wild with where the series can go from here and if we should expect that genre element to return.

The concept that drives writer/director David Robert Mitchell’s unnerving horror film IT FOLLOWS is obvious in its allegory and certainly, the idea of evil VD has been mined since David Cronenberg literally spat out his sex parasites in 1975’s THE CAME FROM WITHIN (aka SHIVERS). Here, in IT FOLLOWS, it’s not the metaphorical frissons that affect the viewer, rather it is the economical ways in which its director uses sound, silences and framing to seep under the audience’s skin. And believe us, IT FOLLOWS, much like the spectral STD it introduces, leaves an unshakable residue long after withdrawal.

Rock opera may not be the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of H.P. Lovecraft’s writing, but the new album DREAMS INT HE WITCH HOUSE: A LOVECRAFTIAN ROCK OPERA manages to deliver the unexpected. The project, masterminded by executive producer Mike Dalager, is like the soundtrack to an elaborate stage production that may not exist, but seems like it should.

The New York-area Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is continuing its commitment to screening classic fear fare over the next two weekends, showcasing a trio of cult classics from the ’70s and ’80s on the big screen, all in 35mm.

Having won Best Presentation at last year’s inaugural Fantastic Market | Mercado Fantastico, Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban returns to Austin in 2014 with his finished feature debut, THE INCIDENT (EL INCIDENTE).

Burbank horror hotspot Dark Delicacies will once more welcome Full Moon Features and a cavalcade of the coolest cult film figures alive to sign autographs and celebrate the release of issue #4 of FM’s in-house cult film magazine DELIRIUM. But not only will the event–running Saturday, Sep 27th, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.–preview their popular magazine (curated by Fango ed Chris Alexander), it will serve as a spotlight for the upcoming Full Moon Blu-ray release of the 1992 fantasy film DOCTOR MORDRID, starring Jeffrey Combs.